FLINT, MI -- A woman accused of killing her 14-year-old granddaughter more than 15 years ago was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see if she is able to stand trial on the accusations.

Lois Arlene Janish, 74, was ordered Monday, Jan. 13, by Genesee Circuit Judge Joseph J. Farah to undergo the evaluation after she was charged with open murder for the death of Coral Hall.

Hall went missing Sept. 22, 1998. Her body has never been found. Her last known location in the Flint area was a call from a pay phone near the White Horse Tavern to a friend about a fight she and Janish had.

The evaluation will determine if Janish is competent to stand trial and if she was criminally responsible for the alleged crime.

A competency evaluation focuses on Janish's current mental state and her ability to assist her attorney, Jessica Mainprize-Hajek, in her defense. The evaluation for criminal responsibility centers on Janish's mental state at the time of the alleged offense.

Mainprize-Hajek could not be reached for comment on the case.

Janish allegedly told investigators she killed the girl with a hammer then dismembered her body before scattering her remains -- a story that she eventually recanted.

Dortman, who was in his mid-20s when Hall disappeared, testified that he lived in the same Ann Arbor Street neighborhood as Hall and Janish the year Hall disappeared. Dortman said that Hall was his "using buddy" and that he regularly smoked crack cocaine with the girl.

Dortman said he rarely interacted with Janish, but he added that Janish offered him time alone with Hall in exchange for drugs. However, Dortman, who talked candidly about his own drug addiction, said Janish never elaborated on what she meant by the offer.

Dortman, who said he already spent plenty of time alone with Hall, particularly when the two were smoking crack, denied that he had any physical relationship with the girl.

Janish has given different accounts of what happened to Hall since the girl's disappearance, according to police. One version involved Hall moving down South to live while another involved Hall fleeing to California with an older man, police said. Janish allegedly even said that Hall was found raped and stabbed to death in California.